ask fedora -- closing questions because they're answered?

[Pete Travis]

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On 07/20/2014 09:55 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> I'm asking this here for lack of a "meta" site for Ask Fedora. :)
>
> I recently came across this:
>
>
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/50626/when-will-dnf-fully-be-ported-to-fedora/
>
> I'm a bit perplexed by the close reason -- "the question is answered,
right
> answer was accepted". Whatever the reason, this shows up in the list of
> questions with [closed] by the title (in addition to the green checkmark
> indicating that an answer was accepted).
>
> Why would we want to do this? Isn't the point to build up a body of
> questions and answers?
>
> I think closing should be reserved for _problematic_ questions -- off
topic,
> spam, argumentative, etc. But maybe I'm not getting something here. Does
> closing questions for being successful have a benefit I'm missing?
>
>

I didn't like this at first, either.  There's always room for
improvement, elaboration, follow up questions, etc.  Howver, it *really*
bothers me to see a good answer followed up by a not-so-good or
blatantly incorrect answer, or sometimes people will even simply
paraphrase an existing answer for the sake of participation.

So, I don't think this should be categorically applied to all questions
with a correct answer, but it does have some merit.  There are many
questions - like Ankur's one about rpmfusion codecs - where it is best
to maintain one comprehensive, correct answer and discourage drive-by
solutions that are incorrect or just not as good.

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